CHAPTER IX.

I Leave the South--A Typical British Naval Officer--An Officer of the

Household Troops--Early Newport Life--A Country Dinner--The Way I got up

Pic-nics--Farmers throw their Houses Open to Us--A Bride receives us in

her Bridal Array--My Newport Farm--My Southdowns and my Turkeys--What an

English Lady said of our Little Island--Newport a place to take Social

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